Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-05

KNOW now 10 nanule II ana are reason
ably prudent in their actions there is
still in the bottom Of the boat they can't
overturn it if they try. One day we went
aboard brick barge and the astonsh.
ment the men who ran the big clumsy
thing showed over our tiny craft was
quite amusing They considered us
miracles of courage because we were
willing to 90 on the water in such q
cookie shell and were absolutely sure
that we would be upset IN less than half
an hour. And as for me, they could
hardly believe the evidence of their own
eyes that had been aboard the canoe,
and nothing could have convinced them
that there was another woman on the
face of the earth who would dare venture
in it on the water"
So the belle in canoe is something of
proud heroine.
Many ladies who dabble in their own
dressmaking here in the city, buy dummy
figures made fzlnc neatly cut and sold
cred together like dress waist, and war.
ranted to be the exact size and shape of
the buyer. These bodices are mounted on
! skeleton petticoat made of heavy wire;
! and a vertebral column like broom.
stick with knot on top, penetrates the
affair and finishes in four little legs with
castors. Mrs. Catlin got one of these
tuiueS, anu ~ 10 ihClJ w luhhS uh
awful row in the family. Catlin is a sus-
picious, jealous little man. Now Mrs. c.,
according to the disclosures of the dummy
| figure, has a glrth measure OF thirty-siX
inches and bust of forty-seven. This
is no fool of a measurement to be jealous
of; but Catlin has an idea that she is
A SORT OF MATURED VENUS
and his brain takes fire with dangerous
readiness. He met the zinc obelisk with
the wire base going up the front steps
He recognized the graceful proportions
and sailed into the dining-room, where
| his wife and few lady friends were dis
| cussing few straw berries and the latest
| sweet thing in sleeves.
Madam, said he, what was my, re-
ply when old Marbleyard wanted to
in Cypress Hillg No, said. 1t may be
decent to make statues after death, but
no modest woman will be sculptured
while living. l would not permit it.
| And here you have been and committed
a greater improperly than to have sat
for your bust to old Marbleyard."
why, Mr.. Catlin how you do 60 on,''
she replied; II didn't have to sit for that
thing"
"Do you mean to tell ME that it was
| done from lmaglnatiOn?"
mo, do not; | was measured by a
lady"
| mo lady made that thing; that's the
handiwork of male mechanic"
Very likely, Mr.. Catlin, but made
from measurements put down IN book
| by q woman"
"No, madam; you say that to avoid my
| just indignation; but | recognize your
figure, even to that little rise in the neck
! when you broke your collar bone rs Il
child. You had that armor hammered
onto you by base mechanic"
You are crazy, Catlin," sobbed his
wife; but you'll pay for it all the same.
Give the bill to that little man pulling
hair in front OF the hat stand" said she
being disgraced," to use his own words.
The dummy is standing in the grass plot
in the back yard, the nelghbors say, and
already morning glories are going up its
legs. Catlin swears he won't have it in
the house. 1t will be u pretty little gar
den ornament in month, when the
eiiigy of Mrs. g. will be pettlcoated with
climbing plants, and only the headless
torso will protrude from the friendly
clasping creeping shrubs.
CLARA BELLE.